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Present location. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. The Antikythera mechanism ( / ˌæntɪˈkɪθɪərə / AN-tih-KIH-ther-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer [1] [2] [3] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.
The east side of Mount Baker in 2001. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit. Mount Baker (Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit; Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States.
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport. / 30.53278°N 91.15000°W / 30.53278; -91.15000. Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( IATA: BTR, ICAO: KBTR, FAA LID: BTR ), also known as Ryan Field, is a public use airport located four miles (7 km) north of the central business district of Baton Rouge, a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana ...
List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) " The Day of the Doctor " is a special episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, marking its 50th anniversary. [2] [3] [4] It was written by Steven Moffat, [5] who served as an executive producer alongside Faith Penhale. [6] It was shown on BBC One on 23 November 2013 ...
The East Baton Rouge Parish School System, also known as East Baton Rouge Schools ( EBR Schools) or the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, is a public school district headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. The district serves most of East Baton Rouge Parish; it contains 54 elementary schools, 16 middle schools, and 18 high ...
4000. ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...
1983 (7th Session) Area. 38,160.87 ha. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. [2] [3] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba ...
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time.